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Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ḥamw-

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This Proto-Semitic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Semitic

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Etymology

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According to Igor Diakonoff, the term is inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic *ḥamw- with Egyptian ḥmww (/⁠ḥamw⁠/), ḥmwt,[1] typically used in the names of craftsmen, the mass of the labouring population in Ancient Egypt, referencing their figurative affiliation to the pharaoh.

Noun

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*ḥamw- m (plural *ḥaman-)[2]

  1. father-in-law

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Semitic:
    • Akkadian: 𒂊𒈬 (e-mu /⁠emu⁠/)
    • Eblaite: 𒂍𒈬𒈬 (/⁠ˀà-mu-mu⁠/)
  • West Semitic:
    • Central Semitic:
    • South Semitic:
      • Old South Arabian:
      • Modern South Arabian:
      • Ethiopian Semitic:
        • Northern Ethiopian Semitic:

References

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  1. ^ Diakonoff, Igor (1999) The paths of history, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 29
  2. ^ Kogan, Leonid (2015) “ḥam-”, in Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 45, only obiter, apparently forgetting or repressing to expand upon this form which is curtailed like *ʔab- (father) as one of الْأَسْمَاء السِّتَّة (al-ʔasmāʔ as-sitta).